As institutions and governance structures develop in modern markets, they tend to “feed back” onto economic activity. Through such feedback loops, market and political arenas can develop symbiotically into relatively coherent “fields” that gradually embed actors’ orientations and activities. Using these insights, this article develops and tests a theory of European integration focusing on the c...

Abstract The free speech and culture war debates obfuscate stop us examining difficult matters such as religion; we need to create a new form of activism, I have done via the Influencing Corridors Power project (ICOP) ( https://blogs.soas.ac.uk/cop/ ). Ricœur’s activism was in word: he understood full potential language for grappling with human condition. He believed that must exercise our capa...

—The oldest original international system from a political science and world historical perspective is the West Asian international system. Reported here are findings of a study to identify, measure, and describe the composition of the earliest international system in terms of politically autonomous units, similar to earlier studies of the modern international system of nation-states and its po...